Re: [Discuss] encryption and rsync

2012-07-17 Thread Richard Pieri
On 7/16/2012 1:59 AM, Tom Metro wrote: But I'm assuming that EncFS isn't doing anything to assist the syncing of partial files, so your minimum transfer is a full file. Like I said, I've been experimenting, and I've found how to make this work better with rsync/unison. Hooray for reading the

Re: [Discuss] encryption and rsync

2012-07-16 Thread Tom Metro
Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > Tom Metro wrote: >> So you're syncing the encrypted files in the source directory. That >> makes a lot more sense than using an encryption technology that just >> creates an opaque image file. > > I use whole-disk, and file containers, and encfs, all for different > purp

Re: [Discuss] encryption and rsync

2012-07-16 Thread Richard Pieri
On 7/16/2012 8:20 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: I suggested that to the rsync folks some years ago, and they said they didn't like the idea. I'm not surprised. rsync is a unilateral copy tool: make target look exactly like source. An out of band index is superfluous to this. > Do you know a

Re: [Discuss] encryption and rsync

2012-07-16 Thread Richard Pieri
On 7/16/2012 1:59 AM, Tom Metro wrote: So you're syncing the encrypted files in the source directory. That makes a lot more sense than using an encryption technology that just creates an opaque image file. Correct, at least for my needs. There is a 1:1 correspondence between native file syste

Re: [Discuss] encryption and rsync

2012-07-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Tom Metro > > According to: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encfs > > Two directories are involved in mounting an EncFS filesystem: the > source directory, and the mountpoint. E

Re: [Discuss] encryption and rsync

2012-07-15 Thread Tom Metro
Richard Pieri wrote: > I just started experimenting with client-side EncFS and running rsync or > unison on the underlying native file system. ... Sync underneath EncFS > compares encrypted file to encrypted file... According to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encfs Two directories are involved i